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including The Conductor, a special section of the Spectrum printed 4 times a year

To the Editor

Spectrum Volume 17 Issue 22 - March 2, 1995

Jim Marchman rightly pointed out that what Project ENABLE
puts out is close to incomprehensible. What's more, it's stuff that no one
outside ENABLE cares about. Why do we allow so much money and effort to be
wasted through the circulating of this self-advertising, self-praising
bumf in the form of newsletters and bulletins?

I like the suggestion made in Virginia Scholar (#3, September 1994, p.
15): "if any unit issues such a newsletter or pamphlet, that unit's budget for
the following year shall be reduced by the cost of that publication, including
the personnel time used in its preparation. The savings will not be
peanuts."